Aunt Harriet Quotes

“Heard how Aunt Harriet kept Grace (in spite of the fact that she was a very depressing person) on account of her asthma; and when Elizabeth Ann’s father and mother both died when she was a baby.”

“Aunt Harriet was very small and thin and old, Grace was very small and thin and middle-aged, Aunt Frances (For Elizabeth Ann called her ‘Aunt,’ although she was really, of course, a first-cousin-once-removed) was small and thin and if the light wasn’t too strong might be called young, and Elizabeth Ann was very small and thin and little.”